Muntjac Liver - Any ideas?

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I shot 3 munties over the weekend and one had this in the liver. I'm hoping it's nothing too bad as I could only narrow it down to 2 carcasses and would hate to have to throw both away. I have just discarded the liver so far.

Several of these throughout the liver, white spots on the outside, filled with little yellow balls (eggs?) - my BDS guide to disease only shows 2 liver issues - Fluke and White Spot, but makes little mention of the inside of them.

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Fluke eggs are too small to be seen unaided. I can't tell if this is an abscess or if the white wall is just part of the bile duct and the grains are bile salt crystals. Going back to your original post though, I wonder about tapeworm cysts, but they are usually on the capsule of the liver.